Bypolls Election Results 2022: counting of ballots for 7 assembly seats and 3 Lok Sabha seats

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• Jun 26, 2022 | Poonam Nath

Under multiple tiers of security, counting started at 8 am. Postal ballots will be tallied initially, and then EVMs will be unlocked.

Digital Desk: On June 23, by-polls elections were held for three Lok Sabha seats and seven assembly seats across five states and Delhi. 

The results count started today (Sunday, June 26, 2022) at 8 am; the counting started under multi-level security protection. 

Postal ballots will be counted first, and then EVMs will be unlocked. Azamgarh, Rampur, and Sangrur in Punjab are the three Lok Sabha seats that went to the polls on June 23. 

Rajinder Nagar in Delhi, Mandar in Jharkhand, Atmakur in Andhra Pradesh, Agartala, Town Bordowali, Surma, and Jabarajnagar in Tripura are the seven assembly districts.

Today will determine the outcome of Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha, among others. While none of the outcomes have the potential to change state government, the majority are high-pitched, prestige battles with significant political pride at stake.

The By-Poll election Scenario in-

1| Tripura - Tripura has the most seats, with four each in Agartala, Jubarajnagar, Surma, and Town Bardowali. Saha, who is contesting from Town Bardowali, must win this election to keep his position as chief minister. He is a Rajya Sabha member who sworn in last month following the sudden resignation of then-chief minister Biplab Deb. Tripura had the highest turnout on Thursday, with 76.62 percent voting.

2| Uttar Pradesh - The resignations of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and party leader Azam Khan from the Azamgarh and Rampur seats, respectively, necessitated bypolls in Uttar Pradesh. Both leaders resigned as Lok Sabha members after being elected to the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly earlier this year.

In Rampur, the BJP's Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi, a newcomer to the party. Azam Khan chose Asim Raja as the SP candidate. The BSP, led by Mayawati, will not contest for the Rampur seat. The Azamgarh seat was contested by the BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav, a Bhojpuri actor-singer, the SP's Dharmendra Yadav, and the BSP's Shah Alam, also known as Guddu Jamali.

3| Punjab - The bypoll in Sangrur was called after Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann resigned from the Lok Sabha after being elected as an MLA in the state assembly elections earlier this year. Mann was elected to the Sangrur parliamentary seat in both the 2014 and 2019 elections.

After an impressive performance in the assembly elections, Punjab's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is facing its first popularity test. The byelections were held when the AAP was under fire from the opposition over the state's law-and-order situation and the murder of singer Sidhu Moosewala.

The AAP has fielded Gurmail Singh, the party's Sangrur district in-charge; the main opposition Congress has fielded Dalvir Singh Goldy, a former Dhuri MLA; and the BJP has fielded Kewal Dhillon, a former Barnala MLA who joined the party on June 4.

4| Jharkhand - The Jharkhand byelection was required following the disqualification of Bandhu Tirkey as an MLA following his conviction in a corruption case. Tirkey was sentenced to three years in prison by a special CBI court in Jharkhand on March 28.

The Congress has nominated his daughter, Shilpi Neha Tirkey, as the ruling JMM-led coalition's common candidate, while the BJP has nominated former legislator Gangotri Kujur. The Congress and the RJD are the two other parties in Jharkhand's ruling coalition. Dev Kumar Dhan, an independent candidate, supported by Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), is also running.

5| Delhi's Rajinder Nagar - Among the assembly elections, a high-stakes contest will be decided in the national capital in the Rajinder Nagar bypoll, which also saw a reduction in voting percentage, from 58.3% in 2020 to 43.75% three days back. 

In Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, AAP's Durgesh Pathak is likely to have a close contest with BJP's Rajesh Bhatia, who had also been a councilor from the area. The Congress nominee is Prem Lata.

The bypoll was necessitated in the wake of AAP leader Raghav Chadha leaving the seat after recently being elected to the Rajya Sabha.

6| Andhra Pradesh - Andhra Pradesh is holding a byelection to fill the vacancy of  Minister Mekapati Goutham Reddy, who died in February. His younger brother Vikram Reddy is the ruling YSR Congress candidate, and he is competing against G Bharat Kumar Yadav of the BJP.

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